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Sketchbook no 3 on Orkney.
MS 28/487/3
Description Sketchbook no 3 on Orkney.
Date c. 1850 to 1863
Collection Records of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number MS 28/487/3
Category All Other
Scope and Content Notebook/sketchbook of George Petrie, including finds illustrations and site plans of archaeological sites in Orkney, with annotations in a later hand. The disparity of dates suggests that some drawings may have been redrawn by Petrie from earlier sketches. Page 1 Plan of Black Knowe short cist and urn; section through mound and short cist at Little [blank] in St Andrews parish, with view of urn inside cist, and separate sketch of broken stone ard share found in cist (RCAHMS 1946, no 659). On reverse, plan & section of barrow at Toab, St Andrews, March 1850 (ibid, no 634), & sketch of steatite bowl found at Birsay. Page 2 Watercolour of decorated cinerary urn inverted on stone slab at Grimbister in Firth parish, pencil sketch of unlabelled ?bone object. On reverse, pen & ink drawing of short cist containing two crouched skeletons at Newbigging, St Ola, lower level (and pencil sketch of female face in profile) (ibid, no 434). Page 3 Pencil & ink plans & sections of two-storey cist and capstone at Newbigging, 1855; watercolour section through short cist with inhumation at Towerhill, St Ola, June 1859 (ibid, no 432). Page 4 Pen & watercolour sketches of unidentified ?natural mound with two short cists with inhumations shown in plan & section. Page 5 Watercolour view of interior of chambered cairn Calf of Eday NW (ORK 9). Page 6 Pen & wash plan & sections of ORK 9. Page 7 Pen & wash sketches of stone lamp from Rousay 1860, hollowed stones and stone implement from Skogar, Birsay 1859. Page 8 Ink sketches of spindle whorl, pot, frag composite bone comb & (loose cut-out) part of spoked object from the East Broch of Burray (faint pencil plan of broch on transparent page between this page and last). Page 9 Another view of pot. Page 10 Pencil sketch of bone pin from East Broch of Burray. Page 11 Watercolour views of two long-handled bone combs from East Broch of Burray. On reverse, pencil & ink plan of entrance passage & guard cells of Lamb Head broch, Sanday (ibid, no 947). Page 12 Pen & wash section through guard cells & passage of Lamb Head broch, Sept 1842, & rough pencil sketch plan of same. Page 13 reverse, ink & wash plan and section through well of Oxtro broch (RCAHMS 1946, no 11). Page 14 Pencil sketches of bronze dress pin & pennanular brooch from Oxtro and iron bell from Saevar Howe (ibid, no 40), Dec 1858. Page 15 Watercolour drawings of Iron knife, scythe and mattock, and decorated bronze ferrule. On reverse, plan of the chamber of Holm of Papa Westray North cairn and written text (ORK 21). Page 16 Pencil sketch of pot from Saevar Howe, July 1862, and perforated hammer from broch at Oyce July 1862, probably Ingshowe. Page 17 On reverse, Watercolour drawing of broch of Burgar viewed from the beach, August 1955. Page 18 On reverse, sketch plan of broch of Inghowe (ibid. no 322). Page 19 On reverse, perspective view of cists in mound at Warthill, Deerness, 4 June 1861. Page 20 Sketch plan of chambered cairn of Burray (ORK 7), with written text in pencil. Page 21 Pen & wash drawing of arms of Bishop Tulloch on tomb in Kirkwall Cathedral, April 1863, and Cathedral bell. Page 22 On reverse, ink & wash plan, section and elevation of window of round church at Orphir. Page 23 Ink drawing of profile moulding from Earl's Palace, Kirkwall. Page 24 Pencil sketch of fireplace in hall of the Earl's Palace, Kirkwall.
Medium pencil, ink & wash & watercolour
Accession Number 1975/12
External Reference SAS 487(3)
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